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so the defense and other support for israel. the missile defense systems in turkey very strong development of coalition military defense capabilities in the gulf and in continued operations against al qaeda. but nonetheless that is one of the first things the obama administration has to do is deal with this perception that on the military side we are pulling out. the presumption is out there. as dennis said, iran is critical. he went through the main reasons why iran is so focused on our attention and why we have so much attention on it. i would like to add looking at the pratt as well as the depth in the problem of iran, its problem on the nonproliferation, regional stability, oil markets, the world economy, which is dependent upon the price of oil, our relations with israel, the role of the security council and in the city council in the u.n. almost everything important is at stake in this. this is the most critical and most dangerous situation that the administration will be facing in the next year. looking at in the wind whi
so the defense and other support for israel. the missile defense systems in turkey very strong development of coalition military defense capabilities in the gulf and in continued operations against al qaeda. but nonetheless that is one of the first things the obama administration has to do is deal with this perception that on the military side we are pulling out. the presumption is out there. as dennis said, iran is critical. he went through the main reasons why iran is so focused on our...
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netanyahu has been prime minister in israel. bear in mind that those agitating the loudest on this issue have other reasons to agitate. including distracting attention from other problems particularly the problem that's gotten discussed and if anything that is a reason for them to continue agitating about this issue rather than to actually get resolvent. although both presidential candidates have boxed themselves and with statements about the acceptability of a nuclear weapon there are the basis for anticipating some differences with regard to how the election is going to come out. the main one is that for mr. obama if he wins he would be a second term president never running for office again with some more basis because of that, or perhaps taking some political risks in the interest of introducing the flexibility that would be necessary to reach an agreement. whereas mr. romney would be running for the reelection from day one and on anything involving israel and the concerns of the prime minister netanyahu president romney woul
netanyahu has been prime minister in israel. bear in mind that those agitating the loudest on this issue have other reasons to agitate. including distracting attention from other problems particularly the problem that's gotten discussed and if anything that is a reason for them to continue agitating about this issue rather than to actually get resolvent. although both presidential candidates have boxed themselves and with statements about the acceptability of a nuclear weapon there are the...
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expressing vigorous support and unwavering commitment to the welfare, security and survival to the state of israel and so forth. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. ms. landrieu: i further ask, mr. president, the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table with no intervening action or debate, and that any statements relating to the measure be printed at the appropriate place in the record as if read. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. landrieu: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of s. con. resolution 60 submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate concurrent resolution 60 providing for conditional adjournment or recess of the senate pending adjournment of the house of representatives. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. ms. landrieu: i ask unanimous consent that the concurrent resolution be agreed to, the motion to re
expressing vigorous support and unwavering commitment to the welfare, security and survival to the state of israel and so forth. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. ms. landrieu: i further ask, mr. president, the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table with no intervening action or debate, and that any statements relating to the measure be printed at the...
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but just about every mailing that we send out mentioned either obama removing jerusalem as capital of israel from his platform and then we inserting at or it mentioned his call to return to '67 borders or it mentioned the fact that his administration had a slow walked sanctions against iran, and those issues have resonance among the pro-israeli evangelicals. >> jonathan salant is one of washington's most thoughtful journalists. he's been covering this sector for a long time. thank you for your comment. he is the money and politics reporter for bloomberg and he's also president of the national press club. what did you see yesterday and what does it mean for the country? >> in 2010 we saw the secret money in the races. this is going to be a foreshadow in the 2012. it wasn't. obama was able to raise as much money as romney and he had help with some of the super political action committees and outside groups in the republican national committee. but the money was even. obama wasn't swamped. he was able to match the spending dollar for dollar. the difference was obama raised the money himself in
but just about every mailing that we send out mentioned either obama removing jerusalem as capital of israel from his platform and then we inserting at or it mentioned his call to return to '67 borders or it mentioned the fact that his administration had a slow walked sanctions against iran, and those issues have resonance among the pro-israeli evangelicals. >> jonathan salant is one of washington's most thoughtful journalists. he's been covering this sector for a long time. thank you for...
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. >> it's, you know, anytime israel is involved in a story it becomes an excruciatingly difficult story for american journalists to cover. because there is, for the most part, a natural sympathy in this country, a sense of identity in this country with israelis. and many reporters, old friends and colleagues, the late peter jennings, used to i think very unfairly be criticized for taking an anti-israeli point of view, was so much an anti-every point of view as that it spent many years living in the arab world and had a sympathetic point of view that arabs. i think what is happening in gaza right now meets almost any definition of tragedy. the israelis cannot be expected, on the one hand, the standby while their cities are rocketed. on the other hand, the great irony, the paradox in that story is because the defense forces are infinitely more professional than hamas fighters, the number of casualties on the palestinian side are always going to be much greater, thereby leaving an impression that there is somehow something unfair about the war. this is precisely a time when you need the co
. >> it's, you know, anytime israel is involved in a story it becomes an excruciatingly difficult story for american journalists to cover. because there is, for the most part, a natural sympathy in this country, a sense of identity in this country with israelis. and many reporters, old friends and colleagues, the late peter jennings, used to i think very unfairly be criticized for taking an anti-israeli point of view, was so much an anti-every point of view as that it spent many years...
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ericson: all right, my top issue is that there's all this controversy about whether or not israel is going to go to war with iran. and when president obama spoke about the big yellow bird, i don't think he was talking about the big yellow bird, i think he was talking, you know, big bird on tv, i think he was talking about china. china, you know, chinese people, oriental people are referred to as yellow. china has the largest population on earth, a billion people. they have so many people that they force women to have abortions. they have no respect for human life at all. and china is friends with iran. china is trading partners with iran. if we help israel go to war with iran, then we're going to have to deal with an angry china, and i think that's a really big problem, and we have to just put a stop to it and negotiate peace. >> well, as i said in the opening statement that, um, i really feel that our biggest problem is the deficit, but i believe that the reason why we haven't been able to, um, to lower the national debt is because our political system is broken. and we need to fix
ericson: all right, my top issue is that there's all this controversy about whether or not israel is going to go to war with iran. and when president obama spoke about the big yellow bird, i don't think he was talking about the big yellow bird, i think he was talking, you know, big bird on tv, i think he was talking about china. china, you know, chinese people, oriental people are referred to as yellow. china has the largest population on earth, a billion people. they have so many people that...